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“My 15-year-old daughter is in marlians cult & does not wear pant to school” – Mom cries out
A Facebook user, Adebiyi Gabriel Olajide-Mackson, shared this story that highlights the influence of Naira Marley and his Marlian gang on the daughter. Read below: Another deadly virus in the society, being a Marlian!!! Did Naira Marley initiate anyone into a cult? I am just coming from my daughters school right now. Their principal called me around 9am this morning to report to...
Obaseki plunges Edo into foreign debt with no result to show, DMO reports says
A report from Nigeria’s Debt Management Office (DMO) has shown that Edo State sunk into scary levels of foreign debt under the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki. According to the data, Edo State has a foreign debt profile of $276.25m representing 6.53 per cent of the sub-national foreign debt portfolio, a figure second only to Lagos State. In spite of this...
2023: Yarima Declares Interest To Contest For Presidency
A former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmad Sani Yarima has declared interest to contest for the presidency come 2023. Yarima, an All Progressives Party (APC) member disclosed this yesterday in Bauchi while speaking with newsmen shortly after he paid a condolence visit to a famous Islamic scholar, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi over the death of his wife. He said that...
31 injured in Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident – FRSC
No fewer than 31 persons including children sustained various degrees of injury in an accident involving a luxury bus around Mowe on Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Saturday. Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps in Ogun, Mr Clement Oladele, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abeokuta on Sunday. Oladele explained that the accident occurred around 4:38 p.m. and was caused by...
Reverend’s wife burns nine-year-old with iron over bedwetting
The wife of a reverend in the Oko-Oba area of Lagos State, Mrs Olusola Adeleke, has been arrested by the police for allegedly burning the skin of her home help with a hot iron. The woman was arrested along with the reverend, Adebanjo, as the couple were alleged to have subjected the nine-year-old girl to series of physical abuse since...
300 Workers Resign From Pastor Paul Adefarasin’s House On The Rock Church
It was learnt that Adefarasin, fondly called ‘Pastor Paul’, during the sermon of his Church’s first Sunday of the Year service held at The Rock Cathedral in Lekki, Lagos, announced to the congregation that about 300 workers of the church have so far tendered their resignation letters. According to the Pastor, these hundreds of his members took that decision simply...
Nigerian, Dauda Onoruoiza among victims of Ukranian plane crash
A Nigerian, identified as Dauda Onoruoiza, was reportedly among the victims of the Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 crash in Iran on Wednesday. Reports said Onoruoiza was working with Boeing on three months training in Ukraine and was attached to the Boeing 737-800 to fly with and study the mechanical noise and report back to the company. The ill-fated plane was...
“Use of presidential aircraft by Buhari’s daughter, abuse of office” – PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party on Saturday said the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), abused his office and allegedly exhibited the worst form of corruption by dispatching the officially restricted Presidential jet to airlift his daughter, Hanan, for her private photography event in Bauchi State. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, in a statement described the action as provocative,...
Nigerian Troops Kill 100 Bandits, Recover Several Items
At least 100 bandits have been killed by the troops of Operation Hadarin Daji (OPHD) in Zamfara and parts of Katsina State between December 2019 and January 2020, the Acting Force Information Officer, Captain Ayobami Oni-Orisan, has said. Oni-Orisan said in a statement to journalists in Gusau on Saturday that troops comprising personnel of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian...
Reverend’s wife burns nine-year-old with iron over bedwetting
The wife of a reverend in the Oko-Oba area of Lagos State, Mrs Olusola Adeleke, has been arrested by the police for allegedly burning the skin of her home help with a hot iron. The woman was arrested along with the reverend, Adebanjo, as the couple were alleged to have subjected the nine-year-old girl to series of physical abuse since...
